From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 31 13:56:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E45537B6A9 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 76730575DE; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:56:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:56:21 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Brad Knowles Cc: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List Subject: Re: Embedded servers + PicoBSD? Message-ID: <20010131155621.A46862@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , Brad Knowles , FreeBSD Chat Mailing List References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:59:48PM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:59:48PM +0100, Brad Knowles scribbled: | The story on /. about the Netcomm Modem/Hub/Server (running an | embedded version of Linux, see | ) has gotten | me thinking about how you could do something like this (or even | better) on FreeBSD. | It also occurred to me that you could do the WAN networking part | with standard PC Cards, and you could even throw in wireless 802.11b | networking as well. | Does anyone know of any good embedded hardware systems that are | well-supported by FreeBSD, and can support a hard drive (e.g., an | IDE/ATAPI drive like you might find in a laptop), plus a couple of PC | Cards? | If you've got this much, I think most of the rest of the drivers | pretty much already fall right into place, and all you'd have to do | is cook up a case to put the thing in, and a small four or five-port | hub to plug onto the back of the machine (which would then get | integrated into the case). To my knowledge, has this not been happening for a long time? ... -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message